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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON STJÓRN 27
The following manuscripts, all of them Icelandic, contain matter from
Stjórn III:
AM 229 fol I, fols 7–16; fragments of a sister manuscript of 227; cf.
above.
AM 229 fol II. Four leaves of a manuscript written about the middle of the
fourteenth century. The hand is possibly that of the scribe of Mö›ruvallabók;
it is certainly closely related (Stefán Karlsson 1967:27). The text sometimes
has better readings than the other manuscripts17 and thus appears to belong to
a different line of descent.
AM 229 fol III. A single leaf written late in the fourteenth century (Stefán
Karlsson 1967:21 n.3). The text is much abridged and offers more variants
than those cited by Unger.
NRA 60B. Two bits of a leaf written in double columns about the middle
of the fourteenth century or a little later. The text (printed in Unger 1862: xii–
xiii) appears to be independent of the other sources but is most closely related
to 228.
The manuscripts and fragments so far mentioned were all used by Unger.
The following were not.
NRA 60C. Two conjoint fragments from the inner part of a leaf written in
two columns by an Icelandic hand probably about the middle of the fourteenth
century. The text corresponds to Unger 1862:521–522 and 524–525; it some-
times runs parallel to AM 229 fol II.
AM 335 4to. A manuscript from about 1400 (see Page 1960:x–xv). The
story of Samson from Stjórn III is found on fols. 11–14, corresponding to
Unger 1862:409–420.
Thott 2099 4to. The top half of a leaf from a fifteenth-century manuscript
(DI I:706; Kålund 1900:352–353), with text corresponding to Unger 1862:
470–71 and 472.
Sth perg 4:o nr 36 I. Two damaged leaves from a fifteenth-century manu-
script (Gödel 1897–1900:104; Astås 1970:128–129). The text corresponds to
Unger 1862:432–435 and 445–448.
corresponds to the Vulgate, 1 Kings 2:8; —5754 ok er sv æigi nefnd 228 (÷226) ] sv er nefnd
germana 227, 229 (cf. the Vulgate , 1 Kings 11:19). More instances could be cited.
17 E.g. Unger 1862:42632 nagrannar 228, 227] konur 226, nagr√nnur 229 II (=vicinae ...
mulieres, Vulgate, Ruth 4:17); — 42635 fπ›vr Amminadab 228, 226] faram fader aminadab
227, f. aram f. aminadap 229 II ( = Vulgate, Ruth 4:19); — 461 20–29 spiot ... sva flungt at
skapti› (so 228, 226, 227, skaptl√st 229 II) va. vi. hundra› skillinga (= ipsum ... ferrum
hastae, Vulgate, 1 Samuel 17:7).